[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Three Wheels

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

August 20, 2006

THE THREE WHEELS

There is a tremendously fertile situation happening with American karma, 
the American search for spirituality. Students here are involved in the 
basic patterns of practice and study that  evolved in the medieval times of 
Indian Buddhism, at places like Vikramashila and Nalanda University.  In 
North America, we are involved with the same view of the three wheels:  the 
wheel of meditation, the wheel of study -- in terms of understanding the 
intellectual aspect of the teaching -- and the wheel of action -- in 
relating with day-to-day living situations.  So we are forming this sangha, 
the community in North America, in accordance with the basic Buddhist 
teaching that evolved already in the past. Maybe ours is not a strict 
monastic sangha; we are not a community of monks and nuns.  But our 
situation could be referred to as the maha or greater sangha:  the greater 
community in which yogis and yoginis, lay practitioners, can live and work 
together.

Excerpts from "The Ultimate Truth Is Fearless," the Opening Ceremony of the 
Karma Dzong Meditation Center, 1111 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, 25 
February 1972.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by 
permission.

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